Thursday, January 30, 2014

I Might Could Make Some Woman a Good Wife

We get all geeky about the strangest things sometimes.  Like vacuum cleaners.  Like this.



The old and the new (and the oldest, if'n ya wanna include me) side by side.  It came to pass that I got really, seriously tired of horsing around that monstrosity you see on the left, for it is big.  And heavy.  And hard to maneuver into certain spaces.  And then there's the cord which must be disconnected and reconnected at varying intervals during the vacuuming extravaganza, at which time I usually tripped over it at least once.

No more.

What you see on the right is the lightweight, cordless, easy-to-handle Dyson DC-44 Animal.  Mr. Dyson is pretty damned proud of his nifty lil vacuums but I got a one-time good deal on a factory-refurbished machine at Amazon.

So.  How does it work?  Quite well, thank ya.  I've used it twice and it does as good a job as the monstrosity did, if not better.  I have a feeling my house is gonna be a lot cleaner from now on, simply because this machine is SO much easier to use than the old one.

Now there's a good wife, eh?

13 comments:

  1. Lovely little vacuum, Buck! A good wife indeed.

    Straighten up that lampshade!

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    1. OCD, Moogie?

      Good to see ya around these parts again. It's been a while.

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  2. I found out that my carpet stains are permanent, because I waited six months to clean them. Oh well, went to wal-mart and bought a throw rug... je suis un gros flemmard à la maison.

    http://couturebroderie.canalblog.com/archives/2007/09/09/6159830.html

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    1. I have what you might call flemmardian tendencies, too. It's real easy for me to put stuff off.

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  3. Nice, very nice! I've wanted a Dyson just cuz I think they are cool; but can't justify the cost. Good on ya!

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    1. They are pretty cool things and not just a lil bit pricey, too.

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  4. I wouldn't have guessed the one on the right is a vacuum cleaner in a million years.

    (Well, maybe in a million years; that's a long time. Certainly not in the last 5 minutes, though. Given a chance to guess, I would have said maybe one of those gold-finding things you see people toting around on the beach or whatnot.)

    Anyway, you are the very picture of domestic bliss. Including a woman in the shot would only be gilding the lily.

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    1. I wouldn't mind having my lily gilded. No... wait. I really didn't mean THAT.

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  5. The scary thought is I knew immediately what that thing on the right is.

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    1. You must have domestic tendencies too, Skip.

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  6. Sorry Buck, couldn't hear you over the enormous sucking sound.... :)

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    1. Isn't that GIANT sucking sound?

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    2. Let me see if I recall, chacun a son gout. Comme ci comme ça.

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